The QRC mystique
Old boy ROLAND SAMUEL ventures where QRC angels, wherever they are found, fear to tread.
What QRC stamp is discernible among V.S. Naipaul, Eric Williams, C.L.R. James, Rudrunath Capildeo or H.OB. Wooding? QRC has been anointed an institution, precluding that an alumnus would have been cloaked with the mantle of [...]
Order of Australia for Lara
The honours keep pouring in for Brian Lara, one of the country’s greatest sportsmen.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has presented him with Australia’s highest award, the Order of Australia.
Lara, the world’s record holder for the highest individual score in Tests and First Class Cricket, already has this country’s highest honour, The Trinity Cross and [...]
Manning, the born again environmentalist
The Prime Minister has championed the policy of heavy industrialisation. He has made an about turn and has become an apostle of Climate Change. Something will surely be rotten in Denmark when he arrives there this weekend.
Monday morning blues for the average citizen driving through rain on traffic clogged highways.
No such horrors [...]
Nah leaving says Gayle
From CRICINFO
Gayle admits that there are no excuses for losing 15 wickets in a day on what he describes as a a beautiful batting track. However, he stresses the West Indies cannot afford to be too hard on themselves.
Chris Gayle will not quit as West Indies captain but acknowledges the three-day defeat in Brisbane was [...]
Barath’s brilliant century fails to save Windies
Barath’s brilliant century fails to save Windies.
by Peter Emglish, CRICINFO.
Barath’s gave a stunning display that wowed the croqwd.His elders in the dressing room were amazed by the performance of the tiniest and youngest member of the team while wondering how they could be so poor. The West Indies lost 15 wickets yesterday in a horrible [...]
Duke, new PSA President
PSA has a Duke as leader. The Baptiste-Primus juggernauth has lost favour with the membership.
It looks like the Jennifer Baptiste-Primus hegemony in the Public Services Association is over.
Two days after the powerful union’s internal elections, the winner has not been formally announced but according to chief elections officer Leonard Baldwin, Watson Duke [...]
Mabbing ducks Gambian controversy
Manning ducks Gambia controversy
Prime Minister Patrick Manning has ducked the controversy involving Gambian President Yayha Jammeh who reportedly threatened to kill persons associated with human rights groups in his country.
Responding to a question posed by a local journalist as to how CHOGM and he as chairman would address the controversial statements, Prime Minister Manning [...]
Masman Mac Farlane dazzles CHOGM opening
Trinidad and Tobago hosts its biggest ever international conference. Queen Elizabeth 11, decked off in a glittering gold outfit, addressed the CHOGM delegates on the relevance and importance of the Commonwealth.
In the 1960s Lord Kitchener sang a calypso bemoaning the fact that in Trinidad “any time is Trinidad time”.
The opening of [...]
Windies struggle at the Gabba
by Peter English, CRICINFO
Australia declared before tea at 480 for 8. Gayle and Barath started like twin trains but after the interval the bowlers had the visitors against the ropes.
Chris Gayle flickered but the West Indies’ spark was on the verge of being extinguished as the Australians started to run away with the first Test. [...]
Obama coming for CHOGM?
The US President was invited to attend the meeting by Prime Minister Patrick Manning. Manning could not say whether the US President has accepted his invitation.
United States President Barack Obama surely isn’t attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference (CHOGM).
Prime Minister Patrick Manning told the press yesterday that he had invited President Obama, [...]